[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 31, Number 8 (Monday, February 27, 1995)]
[Pages 286-287]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 12950--Establishing an Emergency Board To Investigate a 
Dispute Between Metro North Commuter Railroad and Its Employees by 
Certain Labor Organizations

February 22, 1995

    Disputes exist between Metro North Commuter Railroad and certain of 
its employees represented by certain labor organizations. The labor 
organizations involved in these disputes are designated on the attached 
list, which is made a part of this order.
    The disputes have not heretofore been adjusted under the provisions 
of the Railway Labor Act, as amended (45 U.S.C. 151 et seq.) (the 
``Act'').
    A party empowered by the Act has requested that the President 
establish an emergency board pursuant to section 9A of the Act (45 
U.S.C. 159a).
    Section 9A(c) of the Act provides that the President, upon such 
request, shall appoint an emergency board to investigate and report on 
the disputes.
    Now, Therefore, by the authority vested in me as President by the 
Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, in- 

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cluding section 9A of the Act, it is hereby ordered as follows:
    Section 1. Establishment of the Board. There is established 
effective February 22, 1995, a board of three members to be appointed by 
the President to investigate these disputes. No member shall be 
pecuniarily or otherwise interested in any organization of railroad 
employees or any carrier. The board shall perform its functions subject 
to the availability of funds.
    Sec. 2. Report. The board shall report to the President with respect 
to the disputes within 30 days of its creation.
    Sec. 3. Maintaining Conditions. As provided by section 9A(c) of the 
Act, from the date of the creation of the board and for 120 days 
thereafter, no change, except by agreement of the parties, shall be made 
by the carrier or the employees in the conditions out of which the 
disputes arose.
    Sec. 4. Records Maintenance. The records and files of the board are 
records of the Office of the President and upon the board's termination 
shall be maintained in the physical custody of the National Mediation 
Board.
    Sec. 5. Expiration. The board shall terminate upon submission of the 
report provided for in section 2 of this order.
                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
February 22, 1995.

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 3:09 p.m., February 23, 
1995]

Note: This Executive order and the attached annex were published in the 
Federal Register on February 27.